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Kiriko@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago

KDE bans user calling out racism, antisemitism and misogyny but not the perpetrator.

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KDE bans user calling out racism, antisemitism and misogyny but not the perpetrator.

Kiriko@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago
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During the AI policy discussion on https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/work_items/187 someone called a KDE contributor out for their bigotry. KDE banned the person calling them out and removed all the comments.

https://archive.ph/6YccJ#note_1648724 (no other archive available)

https://invent.kde.org/sweetluna (blocked user)

https://invent.kde.org/svin

I guess it’s official. Fascism is allowed. Calling it out is not.

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    I don’t think there’s any question that the words are bigoted.

    But I see very little evidence that they belong to svin, nor that svin has any significant influence in the KDE project.

    Clarification would be appreciated.

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      The guy admits that those tweets are his in the thread. The influence is not substantial to the problem here

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        I see.

        Well, I suppose this is all moot anyway. With KDE now planning to start spying on users to train AI models https://windowsforum.com/news/kde-plasma-kadai-is-a-proposal-not-an-ai-desktop.444963/ it seems we all need to abandon ship regardless.

        What will we use next?

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          Here are lists of projects that actively reject AI:

          https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#desktop-environments

          https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#window-managers

          https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

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